Marchantiopsida is a class of liverworts within the phylum
Marchantiophyta
Liverworts are a group of non-vascular plant, non-vascular embryophyte, land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in wh ...
. The species in this class are known as complex thalloid liverworts. The species in this class are widely distributed and can be found worldwide.
Complex oil bodies are only found in the
gametophyte
A gametophyte () is one of the two alternating multicellular phases in the life cycles of plants and algae. It is a haploid multicellular organism that develops from a haploid spore that has one set of chromosomes. The gametophyte is the se ...
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Liverwort oil bodies: diversity, biochemistry, and molecular cell biology of the earliest secretory structure of land plants
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Taxonomy
* Blasiidae
Blasiales is an order (biology), order of Marchantiophyta, liverworts with a single living family (biology), family and two species. The order has traditionally been classified among the Metzgeriales, but molecular cladistics suggests a placement ...
He-Nygrén et al. 2006
** Blasiales
Blasiales is an order of liverworts with a single living family and two species. The order has traditionally been classified among the Metzgeriales, but molecular cladistics suggests a placement at the base of the Marchantiopsida.
Taxonomy
* Bl ...
Stotl. & Crand.-Stotl. 2000
*** Blasiaceae
Blasiaceae is a family of liverworts with only two species: '' Blasia pusilla'' (a circumboreal species) and '' Cavicularia densa'' (found only in Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northe ...
H.Klinggr. 1858
*** †Treubiitaceae
''Treubiites kidstonii'' is a fossil species of liverworts in the family Treubiitaceae. The only known fossils come from Late Carboniferous deposits of Shropshire, England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is pa ...
Schuster 1980
* Marchantiidae Engl. 1893 sensu He-Nygrén et al. 2006
** Lunulariales
''Lunularia'' is a genus of liverworts whose only species is ''Lunularia cruciata'', the crescent-cup liverwort. ''Lunularia'' is either the only genus in the order Lunulariales, or may be placed in the order Marchantiales. The name, from Latin ...
H.Klinggr. 2006
*** Lunulariaceae H.Klinggr. 1858
** Marchantiales
Marchantiales is an order of thallose liverworts (also known as "complex thalloid liverworts") that includes species like '' Marchantia polymorpha'', a widespread plant often found beside rivers, and '' Lunularia cruciata'', a common and often t ...
Limpr. 1877 (complex thalloids)
*** Aytoniaceae Cavers 1911 ebouliaceae; Grimaldiaceae*** Cleveaceae Cavers 1911 auteriaceae*** Conocephalaceae Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972
*** Corsiniaceae Engl. 1892
*** Cyathodiaceae Stotler & Crand.-Stotl. 2000
*** Dumortieraceae Long 2006
*** Exormothecaceae Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972
*** Marchantiaceae Lindl. 1836
*** Monocleaceae A.B.Frank 1877
*** Monosoleniaceae Inoue 1966
*** Oxymitraceae Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972
*** Ricciaceae Rchb. 1828
*** Targioniaceae Dumort. 1829
*** Wiesnerellaceae Inoue 1976
** Neohodgsoniales D.G.Long 2006
*** Neohodgsoniaceae D.G.Long 2006
** Sphaerocarpales Cavers 1910 (bottle liverworts)
*** Monocarpaceae D.J.Carr ex Schelpe 1969
*** Riellaceae Engl. 1892
*** Sphaerocarpaceae Heeg 1891
Phylogeny
See also
* Marchantiophyta
Liverworts are a group of non-vascular plant, non-vascular embryophyte, land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in wh ...
References
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Liverworts
Plant classes